Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape

The screenshots and the text of this article refer to Inkscape 0.45
on SUSE 10.1. The official Inkscape road map tells us that the most
interesting things in the near future should be PDF import/export and
Visio support in version 0.47, followed by the authoring of simple animations
in Inkscape 0.48. Version 0.50 should include SVG Mobile support. The
plan also includes switching parts of the display engine to Cairo, up to
the point where Inkscape can use the hardware-accelerated back end of
that library. As you can see, there are a lot of reasons to try Inkscape
today and keep an eye on it in the coming months.

Marco Fioretti is a hardware systems engineer interested in free software
both as an EDA platform and, as the current leader of the RULE Project,
as an efficient desktop. Marco lives with his family in Rome, Italy.